I honestly don’t mean for this to become the Ficly blog. I swear. There’s already one of those, and I don’t need that kind of pressure.
I just felt the need to point out that I am now approximately 1/12th of the way through the Ficly 365 challenge. Upon completion and posting of today’s story, “Ginger Goes to Hollywood“, I have now crafted 31 extremely short tales, one for every day of January 2010.
I’m not only proud of my accomplishment, and my ability to force myself to write every day, but I’m also very encouraged by the excellent company I’ve been keeping over at Ficly. The community there is fantastic, and I’m discovering more wonderful new people every day. I’ve been attempting to try and read and comment on other people’s stories, as well, since so many people have been so kind as to comment on my own. But that’s dreadfully difficult to do. I’m hoping that’s something I can get better at over time.
In any case, the full breadth of my literary prowess is on display over on my Ficly author page (or, alternatively, here on Nerdflood, once I get it up to date). I’ve had some stories I’ve been especially proud of, such as That Which God Did Not Create, Cannelliare, and Rivalry. A couple of awfully goofy entries, including The Garden versus the Undead and the entire Merry Deathmas story arc. At least a couple of absolute stinkers (I won’t point those out). I even entered one story into a challenge and somehow ended up winning. I’ve also been asked to participate in a bit of a back-and-forth series with another established writer on the site (which starts here, with his first entry). This has proven quite difficult to do given my inherent fear in creating sequels to other authors’ works.
But I truly feel that the challenge is working. In forcing myself to grind these gears every day, I feel as though I’m stretching muscles and really getting something out of my workout (I’m aware of the mixed metaphor. My apologies). After I’ve completed my year of Ficly stories and have truly and fully established a daily writing regimen, I think the task for 2011 will be to apply that routine towards the creation of a novel. At least, that’s the idea. I think.
So, it’s one month down, eleven to go. 31 days behind me, and 334 days before me.
Man, that’s a heck of a lot of stories.
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